[b]Earth, Space Forces High Command[/b]
The room was dark, lit only by the red glow of negative mass in the center. A sword sat upon the slab of negative mass, floating in the air. One of the many high-ranking personnel in the room picked it up off of the slab and examined it, looking for any abnormality, any slight sign that what the scientist had said was true.

"No, that's impossible." She said, continuing to examine the sword. "Quantum entanglement does not occur naturally, and certainly not between so many particles. Are you sure your scans are correct?"

"Yes, Admiral." Said a man in a white lab coat, turned red by the glow of the negative mass. "The particles of the sword are interconnected. What's more, their spin keeps changing, and none of our scanners are picking up any energy readings."

"Do you mean-"

"Yes. This is most likely caused by magic."

"It's a human design though, and our linguists say that those markings are in Navajo. Even among humanity, only a select few know that language, there's no way that the Eternal Union built this... thing."

"We have already confirmed it's point of origin. The materials are from Prefecture 15 of The District, and it was forged during the colonial period."

"Nobody in that time had any knowledge of quantum entanglement! Your analysis has to be wrong!"

"Twenty did."

"Not once has someone even come close to proving that story!"

"We just did. The soldier carrying it was Lieutenant Anderson, who was involved in the Topeka Riots. He also owned a large corporation at the time, a small arms manufacturer. I went through their sales records and found that they had sold 'Custom Model #581' to Yuuki Sora. As you all learned in Terran History class, Yuuki Sora was the right hand woman of the instigator of the Topeka Riots..."

Everyone's mouths dropped open, and it seemed like they had a hard time closing them. In shock, the woman responded.

"Archangel."

"Fergus McClain claims to have been Archangel, in addition to hundreds of other identities. I did some searching, and one of his claimed identities appears in an ancient Japanese legend, speaking of a man who wielded a straight katana. The legend dates back to 1431."

"That's before the Europeans discovered the Americas, there's no way it was the same sword."

"The sword is over ten thousand years old according to our scans."

"But you said it was forged in the colonial period!"

"It was."

The woman's expression changed from shocked to confused, then back to shocked.

"No, no, no... you are NOT suggesting that. No, that's literally impossible in every imaginable way."

"Apparently, it isn't."

[b]Mercury Orbit, Sol[/b]
A Poland-Class escort approached the odd vessel, a haze of red hydrogen plasma surrounding it. It's two warp rings were spinning, slowly gaining velocity as if preparing for something. Through the plasma shield, four large, tri-barrel turrets could be seen on the top and bottom of the ship, two on each side. A circular window surrounded a small hole, about a meter in diameter, it's sides glowing red with heat as the vessel floated closer to the alien vessel. A message was sent out from the ship, along with a standard SETI image set.

"This is the United Terran Federation Poland-Class escort [i]Powstanie[/i]. Your vessel appears heavily damaged, do you require assistance? I repeat, do you require assistance?"

[b]Septonian Planet, Uncharted Space[/b]
A giant burst of radiation erupted from what seemed to be empty space, so powerful that it illuminated the planet below like a sun. The effect dissipated after only a few moments, leaving behind a gigantic starship falling towards the planet. Whatever FTL it had used, it obviously preserved the velocity of the ship before it activated the drive. After mere seconds of descent, the ship suddenly stopped falling, the device it used to counteract gravity generating a lens-like distortion below two gigantic rings on both ends of the ship. Three giant engines on the back of the ship fired, pushing it into orbit.

A minute after the radiation blast, a haze of red surrounded the ship as dots of blue light appeared all over it's hull. Fighter craft launched off of platforms on the top and bottom of the ship, maneuvering to fall into escort positions. About half of the platforms that the fighters launched from rotated around, revealing threatening, three-barrel turrets on the other side. On both sides of the awesome vessel, markings in an alien language appeared.

[i]Iceland[/i]

A radio transmission was sent from the intimidating dreadnought, multiple pictures of humans (many of them within spacesuits), the planets in the Sol system, the Pioneer plaque, and the UTF seal.

"This is the United Terran Federation Dreadnought [i]Iceland[/i]. Do not fear us, for we come in peace. We apologize for our intimidating appearance, this vessel was designed to be a planetary assault and space combat vessel, deployed in large numbers with the intent of invading and capturing a developed enemy world. However, as we recently negotiated a cease fire with the nation this ship was meant to be used on, we sent it out to search for allies. Along with this message, we have sent an audio-visual dictionary. If you have no translation technology, then you can use it to decipher our speech. In the event that you need to do that, then we suggest that after translating this message, you allow us to land and set up a face-to-face meeting. We have technology that can translate, but only if we meet physically."

[b]Nouvelle[/b]
"Theatrics? I had a feeling that would be in there. I don't know about anyone else here, but us Terrans greatly enjoy theatrics."

After the Eternal Union diplomats had spoken, she turned to them, hiding her annoyance.

"Again, our comms systems are slow, and the fast ones cost billions of W.C.E. to send a single qbit of info. It would take multiple years for a message on the slower communication system to reach us, so we have no way of knowing what happened unless the government decides to spend a trillion W.C.E. to tell us that we don't need to keep our ship's weapons charged anymore, we won't know about the peace deal. You don't look like you're lying, so I'll believe you for now."